76 winters, day by day
Meiho Ski Resort, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Meiho Ski Resort, Japan. Every ski winter from 1950/51 to 2025/26.
Every day of every winter
Each row is a winter, oldest at the top. Each column is a day, from the start of the season to the end. The darker the blue, the more snow fell that day.
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Climate change
Average winter temperature at the summit
Faster warming than 44% of 736 resorts
+2.0°C+3.7°F
The trend: from -4°C24°F to -2°C28°F. Point at a winter to read it.
Snowfall at the summit
−8%
The trend: from 2.9 m113 in to 2.6 m104 in. Point at a winter to read it.
Powder days at the summit
±0 days
The trend: from 3 to 3. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with a base at the summit
−18 days
The trend: from 111 to 92. Point at a winter to read it.
Days with fresh snow at the summit
−8 days
The trend: from 69 to 62. Point at a winter to read it.
Each dot is one winter. The curve is a running average over about ten winters; the dotted line is the straight trend through all of them, and the changes above are measured along it. One winter is weather; the trend is climate.
Then and now
Then 1950/51–1979/80Now 1996/97–2025/26
- Snowfall at the summit−3%
Then
2.8 m110 in
Now
2.7 m106 in
- Snowfall in the village−11%
Then
1.8 m73 in
Now
1.6 m65 in
- Powder days at the summit±0 days
Then
3
Now
3
- Days with a base at the summit−9 days
Then
105
Now
95
- Average temperature at the summit+1.2°C+2.2°F
Then
-4°C25°F
Now
-3°C27°F
Averages per winter over the first and last 30 winters. A powder day brings 10 cm4 in or more of new snow; a base is 30 cm12 in or more on the ground.
Records
All winters
- 1950s1950/512.8 m110 in1951/523.7 m145 in1952/532.9 m114 in1953/542.2 m85 in1954/552.8 m112 in1955/563.3 m130 in1956/573.1 m121 in1957/582.5 m99 in1958/592.2 m86 in1959/601.8 m70 in
- 1960s1960/612.6 m103 in1961/622.6 m102 in1962/633.2 m125 in1963/642.8 m109 in1964/653.2 m126 in1965/663.0 m119 in1966/672.4 m93 in1967/683.2 m128 in1968/693.1 m121 in1969/703.3 m128 in
- 1970s1970/712.4 m96 in1971/722.7 m104 in1972/732.5 m100 in1973/743.8 m148 in1974/753.1 m120 in1975/762.2 m87 in1976/773.0 m119 in1977/783.4 m133 in1978/791.9 m75 in1979/802.4 m95 in
- 1980s1980/813.6 m141 in1981/822.3 m90 in1982/832.8 m109 in1983/843.7 m146 in1984/852.4 m96 in1985/863.2 m124 in1986/872.8 m112 in1987/882.4 m94 in1988/892.4 m95 in1989/902.2 m86 in
- 1990s1990/912.8 m111 in1991/922.2 m85 in1992/932.5 m99 in1993/942.7 m104 in1994/952.5 m100 in1995/963.4 m135 in1996/972.5 m97 in1997/982.5 m97 in1998/992.4 m94 in1999/003.0 m118 in
- 2000s2000/013.2 m126 in2001/023.1 m120 in2002/033.5 m136 in2003/042.8 m109 in2004/052.9 m115 in2005/063.5 m139 in2006/071.8 m70 in2007/082.6 m102 in2008/092.7 m106 in2009/102.9 m112 in
- 2010s2010/112.6 m104 in2011/122.5 m97 in2012/133.3 m130 in2013/143.0 m119 in2014/154.1 m163 in2015/161.8 m71 in2016/172.8 m111 in2017/182.7 m107 in2018/192.5 m98 in2019/201.9 m76 in
- 2020s2020/212.2 m85 in2021/222.6 m100 in2022/232.0 m78 in2023/242.8 m111 in2024/253.3 m129 in2025/261.8 m71 in
Modelled weather from ERA5 and ERA5-Land, not measured on the slopes. Snow depth is the average over a grid cell about 9 km wide, so it can differ a lot from what the piste report says. How SnowOdds works